Mar 3, 2018

8:00pm-10:00pm

Funny Sexy Sad

It's a reading
Nate and Amira are the hosts
They've booked writers they admire
Those writers read their own work
But the work has to have laughs, fucking, or misery in it. Or two or three of those
Caroline Cahill’s poetry has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review and Copper Nickel. Her nonfiction has …

It's a reading

Nate and Amira are the hosts

They've booked writers they admire

Those writers read their own work

But the work has to have laughs, fucking, or misery in it. Or two or three of those

Caroline Cahill’s poetry has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review and Copper Nickel. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Tusk and American Bicyclist. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from VCU in 2011 and was the recipient of a partial fellowship/work exchange grant at the Vermont Studio Center in February 2013.

Olivia Mardwig is a writer from NYC. @omardwig for instacreeping

Jerad W. Alexander is a New York-based writer focusing on politics, history, war, and American culture with works published in Rolling Stone, Esquire, Narratively, Ozy, and elsewhere. He is also a graduate student at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute literary reportage program. A list of works can be found at www.jeradalexander.com. He can be followed at @jerad_alexander

Thursday, March 8

7:30pm

Lauren Slater

When Lauren Slater wrote Prozac Diary, almost 20 years ago, she documented how, as one of the first people to take this potent new antidepressant, her life changed. Millions now count on psychiatric drugs to navigate the stresses of modern life. But we don’t know exactly why or how they work; nor do…

When Lauren Slater wrote Prozac Diary, almost 20 years ago, she documented how, as one of the first people to take this potent new antidepressant, her life changed. Millions now count on psychiatric drugs to navigate the stresses of modern life. But we don’t know exactly why or how they work; nor do we understand their long-term side effects. In Slater’s powerful, exquisitely written new book Blue Dreams, she brings us the explosive story of the invention of psychotropics and the people and science behind the drugs, and shares her own intimate experience with the highs and lows of serotonin boosters. Narrating the colorful and sometimes splotchy history of psychiatry itself, Slater illuminates exactly how the little capsules its practitioners prescribe have left such an indelible mark on millions of brains worldwide. Slater presents her book at Greenlight with a discussion and Q&A.

Thursday, March 15

7:30pm

Uzodinma Iweala with Larissa MacFarquha

Uzodinma Iweala follows up his critically acclaimed debut Beasts of No Nation with a new novel that explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society – and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. In Speak No Evil, a Harvard-bound, Nigerian American…

Uzodinma Iweala follows up his critically acclaimed debut Beasts of No Nation with a new novel that explores what it means to be different in a fundamentally conformist society – and how that difference plays out in our inner and outer struggles. In Speak No Evil, a Harvard-bound, Nigerian American teenager struggles with the recognition that he is gay – a secret only his best friend, the white daughter of top Washington, D.C. officials, knows. When his conservative, religious family discovers his secret, the fallout is brutal and swift, and the two friends find themselves speeding toward a future more violent and senseless than they can imagine. Speak No Evil limns the power of words and self-identification, and asks urgently the questions of who can speak and who has the power to speak for other people. Iweala discusses his long-anticipated sophomore novel at Greenlight with renowned New Yorker journalist Larissa MacFarquhar (author of Strangers Drowning), followed by a signing and Q&A.